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Rob graduated from UCT with a B.Com and CTA , and won the national Financial Mail reader stock picking competition as a student before passing the Chartered Accountants Board Exam. He then worked as a portfolio manager for Momentum Life. Rob left to co-lead a private equity deal that involved purchasing the assets of a bankrupt company. As CEO, Rob grew the turnover and profits by a compound 25% per annum for 15 years. When Rob and his consortium exited in 2005, Sovereign Foods was the most profitable South African company in its industry.
Rob's lifelong fascination with markets and investing has refined investing principles that he has infused into the Rezco team, to create a culture of innovative investment thinking.

Simon, as Head of Research, has a keen interest in how to incorporate new technologies with behavioural finance and traditional investing to build a highly focused, alpha generating research capacity at Rezco. As Co-Portfolio Manager, Simon works closely with Rob in order to generate exceptional risk-adjusted returns for Rezco’s clients. Simon has filled these roles at Rezco since the end of 2017.



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Rob graduated from UCT with a B.Com and CTA , and won the national Financial Mail reader stock picking competition as a student before passing the Chartered Accountants Board Exam. He then worked as a portfolio manager for Momentum Life. Rob left to co-lead a private equity deal that involved purchasing the assets of a bankrupt company. As CEO, Rob grew the turnover and profits by a compound 25% per annum for 15 years. When Rob and his consortium exited in 2005, Sovereign Foods was the most profitable South African company in its industry.
Rob's lifelong fascination with markets and investing has refined investing principals that he has infused into the Rezco team, to create a culture of innovative investment thinking.

He then joined Rezco as an analyst in 2014 and worked with Rezco for a number of years, covering a range of stocks and themes both locally and globally.
Recently, Brendan has re-joined Rezco after taking time to advise, launch, and transition a few entrepreneurial ventures in South Africa in a variety of industries including retail and manufacturing.



Simon, as Head of Research, has a keen interest in how to incorporate new technologies with behavioural finance and traditional investing to build a highly focused, alpha generating research capacity at Rezco. As Co-Portfolio Manager, Simon works closely with Rob in order to generate exceptional risk-adjusted returns for Rezco’s clients. Simon has filled these roles at Rezco since the end of 2017.


James Spanjaard is an MBA graduate of Harvard Business School. Prior to HBS , James was a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Johannesburg and Munich. At BCG James was selected from a worldwide pool of candidates as one of ten ambassadors to BCG’s internal think-tank, the BCG Henderson Institute. As an ambassador to the Henderson Institute, James helped found BCG’s worldwide AI Initiative. James is passionate about philanthropy and dedicates a portion of his personal time to consulting for two South African non-profits serving local communities through education and job skills training. He has a B.Sc in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University where he was one of two members of his graduating class to receive the prestigious SUNY Chancellor’s Award recognizing student excellence in academics, leadership and service.







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